High-energy Q-switched Tm3+-doped polarization maintaining silica fiber laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Willis, Christina C C ^a   Shah, Lawrence ^a   Baudelet, Matthieu ^a   Kadwani, Pankaj ^a   McComb, Timothy S ^b   Sims, R Andrews ^a   Sudesh, Vikas ^c   Richardson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Quantum Tech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; Polarization maintaining; Q switch; Thulium

Indexed keywords

ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; FEEDBACK ELEMENTS; HIGH ENERGY; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCH; Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHES; REFLECTION GRATINGS; REPETITION RATE; SILICA FIBER LASERS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

FIBERS; LASER DAMAGE; POLARIZATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SILICA; THULIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77951866790     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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